Description / Reviews
"Block 5 is situated on a gentle north facing slope in the heart of The Elms vineyard and was planted in 1993. The soils vary up the slope from heavy loess and silt, clay lakebed deposits, and angular schist gravels. Immediately complex, the Block 5 bouquet runs the full and essential spectrum from green through red to black. The 2025 flows across the palate with nonchalance; the interplay of morello and rose petal characters is so precise and beguiling as to belie the structure that undergirds it. In their fourth decade, these vines are approaching homeostasis and the wine reflects this. The quiet confidence of the 2025 - the intricacy of its expression in this embryonic phase - calls to mind the profound 2021." - Winemaker Notes
